Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Inscriptions: Forgotten Script Codices
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Ancient city inscribed with proto-alphabetic signs, mystery unsolved
- 2. Ancient Iranian language used in cuneiform, elusive in ruins
- 3. Describes rhythmic fat extraction method; alludes to script fluidity
- 7. Constructed neologism suggesting cryptic painted characters on stone
- 12. Central Asian script influenced by Sogdian, noted for cursive loops
- 14. Script of desert traders carved in Petra's rose cliffs
Down
- 4. Decoy: not a script but misleads by geographical tag
- 5. Pre-Roman peninsula characters, partially decoded but still arcane
- 6. Early Mesoamerican script from colossal heads context, semiotically cryptic
- 8. Proto-alphabetic script, parent to many alphabets, but hides secrets
- 9. Hinting at classification, but here referencing a mythic script’s order
- 10. Script traded west along Silk Road, right-to-left ink traces
- 11. Script attributed to Himalayan communities with limited records
- 13. Enigmatic Easter Island glyphs, undeciphered by modern linguists
- 15. Island script preceding Linear B, pivotal in Aegean epigraphy
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